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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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 Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 4:09 pm
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The world gives out from beneath her forelegs and she stumbles head over hooves. Around her, blackness glitters with neon lights -- luminescent bubbles rush inward and inside she sees herself. One is of such shock, she gasps and reels backward, crashing into a fragile bubble that shatters into glass.
She collides with herself, submerges into her own body from youth. All awkward limbs and too big ears, she is dropped into a mess of movement. Terrified awe mounts in her muscles and she tremors. It's a mass of writhing water snakes.
And suddenly, she is hungry. Ravenous and old, young, newborn. She is -- awake. A sound has cut through her slumber and she blinks, groggy and disoriented. It does not repeat and she slumps back down. |
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 1 (1-20)
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 11 (1-20)
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Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 4:50 pm
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Day
The night pulses around her -- kin glow like fireflies, flit in and out of her vision -- until she has to close her eyes. But her vision is not ended; indeed her eyes are lidless. She is all seeing in the dead of autumn. (Why is it autumn and not spring? Why the red-orange-brown of change and not the green overgrowth of abundance?)
Sight without the ability to unsee comes with overbearing burden -- tension fissures along her spine until cracks seep into her vertebrae. Weakness, drought, coldness assault her tender heart. And then the firefly-kin grow teeth.
Knowledge crashes into her; formless it crawls into her mouth and down into her lungs until it infects her heart, spirals intoxication through her bloodstream until even her mind begins to burst. It's too much; she is paralyzed.
The firefly-kin besiege her. Their teeth are quick pricks of pain but their lights are fire. It burns and tears into her fur, ravages her skin until she is bare. The bugs cling to her, feed and she is forced into movement. She runs, catches herself on the winds guidance and flies.
It is not the air that provides balm but water. It is rain that cleans the critters from her body. And yet it is only balm, not relief. Elusive is ignorance now; elusive is rest.
She hides within the moon -- settles herself on her wings -- and waits. Sight and knowledge coach her in patience. Crowd her until she is meek and malleable. And she does not notice herself fall; does not notice the moon's underbelly as she tumbles downward. Bright green eyes stare as eternity unfurls before her.
Dawn's light bleeds through the curtains of the weeping willow until she is turned golden. Awakened, she steps out of the body of a doe she no longer is. It is a new day; a new lifetime. The world is hers to burn. (No; it is to be mended and balanced!)
A voice whispers, "Oh, little docile lamb."
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anemosagkelos rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Total: 20 (1-20)
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